Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman's Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power, and Purpose

Helps professional women experiencing feelings of disempowerment and dissatisfaction regain the confidence, courage, and energy to take control of their lives

Identifies 12 crises professional women face today and offers specific advice and tools for overcoming them

Draws on interviews with over one hundred women, offering inspiring stories and practical advice for addressing and resolving disempowerment

Thousands of professional women, though outwardly successful, find themselves in the midst of a crisis, believing that they'Äôve sacrificed meaning, fulfillment, and balance in their lives to achieve work-related success. Their lives feel unmanageable'Äîand they are confused, blocked, overwhelmed and unable to move forward effectively. Kathy Caprino sheds light on this growing epidemic of disempowerment and shows women how to reinvigorate and reclaim their lives.

Breakdown, Breakthrough uses a comprehensive coaching, behavioral, and spiritual framework to explore how women can restore their power and reconnect with their life visions as they awake from the paralysis of professional dissatisfaction and personal diminishment. Caprino outlines a new model for understanding disempowerment, one that focuses on women'Äôs relationships with themselves, with others, with the world, and with what she calls their higher selves. She identifies twelve specific challenges professional women face and offers concrete, practical advice for overcoming each one'Äîhelping readers 'Äústep back, let go of what is holding them back, and say yes'Äù to creating a compelling and rewarding next chapter of life and work.

This is also a deeply personal book. Caprino candidly discusses her own struggles with crippling feelings of disempowerment, and shares moving stories and heartfelt advice gleaned from her interviews with over one hundred women who experienced and overcame the crises she describes. Breakdown, Breakthrough offers working women who are stressed, stuck, and dissatisfied access to new inspiration, hope, and a definite plan of action.

© 2008 Berrett-Koehler Publishers (Ebook): 9781605094205

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Ebook: 1 Oktober 2008